Telecom growth continues with 15.87 mn new connections

New Delhi, April 22 (Inditop) Continuing the telecom growth story, India added 15.87 million telephone connections during March as compared to 13.82 million a month earlier, says the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

With this, the total number of telephone connections reached 429.72 million at the end of March as against 413.85 million in February, a TRAI statement said.

Overall tele-density reached 36.98 in the month under review as against 35.65.